MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527062532 A) filed by Sidel Participations, Octeville-sur-Mer, France, on June 30, for 'container having an improved petaloid bottom, and mould bottom for producing such a container.'

Inventor(s) include Naveau, Laurent; and Boukobza, Michel.

The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a container obtained by blow moulding or stretch blow moulding from a blank made of plastic material, which comprises a body consisting of a substantially cylindrical wall, a shoulder in the extension of said body at an upper end thereof, a neck in the extension of the shoulder, and a bottom of the petaloid type at the lower end of said body, said bottom comprising a wall of generally outwardly convex shape, from which at least three feet formed by protrusions protruding towards the outside of the container extend, these extending from a pellet-shaped central region of the bottom, where the material has remained substantially amorphous, towards a periphery of the bottom where the latter connects to the body, the most protruding parts or tops of the feet are coplanar and jointly form a base via which the container can rest on a flat surface, said base being circular and having a diameter referred to as the base diameter ?a, and each foot having an end face which extends in a gentle slope from the central region of the bottom towards the bottom of said foot; said container is noteworthy in that said end face of each foot comprises at least two sections, a first so-called central section extending from the central region of the bottom in the direction of the top of the foot and having an outwardly facing concavity, and a second so-called peripheral section extending from the central section to the bottom of the foot and having an outwardly facing convexity."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 27, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/087820.

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